Coredinations, Halloween, and pinwheel cards

 

Here are 3 cards we will be making in my neighborhood stamping club next week.  I used both current and retired Stampin Up products.

 

 

One of the ladies wanted to make a fall card and a Halloween card.  I used the new Stampin Up coredinations paper for the leaves.  After they were embossed and sanded, I used two different colors of inkpads on them.  What is really great about the retired Stampin Up designer paper is that it also coordinates with a lot of the current Stampin Up colors! 

I used a retired window sheet with polka dots on it over the chevron embossed card on the Halloween card.  When I went to use my black Stazon inkpad to stamp the Halloween cat, owl, and Boo, my inkpad had dried up and I had no refill.  So I tried the white Stazon...

I think the card looks even better with the white than the black would have - it not only matches the designer paper for the flags, it gives it an eerie feeling to it, perfect for Halloween!

The satin striped ribbon is gray and black, a current Stampin Up item, and I put the new googly eyes in the Boo.  I can't get over how much I am enjoying making Halloween cards now - I was one of those practical people who didn't want to spend the $$ on many seasonal stuff (other than Christmas).  But now I am having fun with the different holidays and seasons doing Stampin Up lol.

The last card is a retired Stampin Up designer paper with pinwheels and pacific point ribbon.  The greeting and framelit I used for it are current.  I love how the framelits make the greetings look fancy and special!!

 

 

I found out that my recently purchased digital camera's photos come out as really big files when I transfer them to my computer....so been using a Microsoft program to compress them to take up less space.  But I see it also makes the pictures a little less clear....I am continuing to learn how to use my camera to get the best pictures of my projects - wonder how long it will take with the trial and error method I'm using??!!